March 2012

WATCH IT: Usher "Climax" (Sam Pilling, dir.)

There are lots of reasons to not live in a sleek, ultra-modern house: There's no place to put any magazines, you spend a fortune on wood polish and, apparently, R&B stars will stalk your home. As in Timberlake's "Cry Me a River" and his own previous "Burn," Usher is back and haunting a casa straight out of Architectural Digest.

WATCH IT: Moonbootica "Iconic" (Skinny, dir.) [NSFW]

What at first plays like just another video of xexy people in poor places doing bad things — sex, guns, drugs — turns into something intense when you realize that the guy playing with fire might be in cahoots with the good guys. (PS: Totally NSFW with lots of gratuitous boobage) --> watch "Iconic" [NSFW]

WATCH IT: Plan B "ill Manners" (Yann Demange, dir.)

London's burning with boredom again. Chaos and violence bursts through the screen as Plan B and Top Boy director Yann Demange takes you through the 2011 Tottenham riots, making you feel no better than the Upper Class crowds that tour the wreckage like it's an Urban Safari. --> watch "Ill Manors"

IN PRODUCTION: Tito Lopez - Mike Mihail, dir.

artist: Tito Lopez
song: "Mama Proud"
label: Capitol
director(s): Mike Mihail
production co: Guerilla Hollywood
DP: Tim Cruz
commissioner: Colin Wyatt

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IN PRODUCTION: Sabi - Mike Mihail, dir.

artist: Sabi
song: "Wild Heart"
label: Warner Bros.
director(s): Mike Mihail
production co: Guerilla Hollywood
producer: Sacha Smith
DP: Rob Witt
commissioner: Denise Watts

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WATCH IT: Brandy & Monica "It All Belongs to Me" (Chris Robinson, dir.)

This collaboration ends with a remembrance of Whitney Houston, but that is only after Monica and Brandy take revenge on the guy that's done one of them wrong.

IN PRODUCTION: Nire Alldai - Hannah Lux Davis, dir.

artist: Nire Alldai
song: "Inside Out"
label: Virgin
director(s): Hannah Lux Davis
production co: London Alley
rep: Yell Productions

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MVPA Awards Return June 1; Submissions Now Open

The MVPA Music Video Production Association — representing production companies and directors, plus freelance workers and other music video related companies — announce the return of their MVPA Music Video Awards, scheduled for June 1 in Los Angeles.

Members and non-members are welcome to participate in the Awards. Non-members can join the MVPA or just sign-on as an event sponsor at mvpa.com/members under the following fee structure:

WATCH IT: No "Stay With Me" (Ryan Reichenfeld, dir.)

Maybe crash test dummies have feelings too. Maybe they experience loss, love and pain just like we do. And maybe they're not gonna take it anymore. --> watch "Stay With Me"

WATCH IT: Bowerbirds "Tuck The Darkness In" (Carlos Lopez Estrada, dir.)

When we talk about fishing, we're talking about death. Keep that in mind when/if you decide to introduce your kid to the rod and reel, because there's a chance he'll become as fixated on the plight of the fishies as the young existentialist in this Bowerbirds video. And, unlike in the music videos, he probably won't have the power to bring them back to life. --> watch "Tuck The Darkness In"

March 2012

WATCH IT: Usher "Climax" (Sam Pilling, dir.)

WATCH IT: Moonbootica "Iconic" (Skinny, dir.) [NSFW]

WATCH IT: Plan B "ill Manners" (Yann Demange, dir.)

IN PRODUCTION: Tito Lopez - Mike Mihail, dir.

IN PRODUCTION: Sabi - Mike Mihail, dir.

WATCH IT: Brandy & Monica "It All Belongs to Me" (Chris Robinson, dir.)

IN PRODUCTION: Nire Alldai - Hannah Lux Davis, dir.

MVPA Awards Return June 1; Submissions Now Open

WATCH IT: No "Stay With Me" (Ryan Reichenfeld, dir.)

WATCH IT: Bowerbirds "Tuck The Darkness In" (Carlos Lopez Estrada, dir.)

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Sunnan "My Love For You" (Nicolina Knapp, dir.)

No Floor "Keep Time" (Dan Fromhart, dir.)

Tyler Goldchain "All On My Own" (Coral Ortiz, dir.)

The Dissonance Theory / Soda Cracker Jesus "Stories That I Get To Tell Today" (Soda Cracker Jesus, dir.)

Hana Vu "Hammer" (Henry Kaplan, dir.)

Maria Chiara Argirò "Light" (Raoul Paulet, dir.)

Hybrid "BULA DITSELA" (Thabang Young, dir.)

Chris Pellnat "Wandering Squandering" (Chris Pellnat, dir.)

Reuben Cannon "Don't Forget" (PJ Germain, dir.)

Matracia "Favorite Ghost" (Tyler Jensen, dir.)

Visions of Hell "Visions of Health" (Matthew Lawrence & Daniel Lovegrove, dir.)

iönä "Tick Tick" (Glen Mountford, Iona Kohler Alven, dir.)

Christina Goh "Arts - Muses" (Baptiste Auffray, dir.)

Thrills & The Chase "A Special Place in Hell" (Roberta Fabruzzi, dir.)

John Presnell "Nursing Your Shadow" (Adam Barnick, dir.)

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